What is Naviance? Naviance is a web-based program for academic planning, college and career research. This system is assigned to every 6th-12th grade students in the Simi Valley Unified School District with a SVUSD gmail account when enrolled in AERIES. Naviance helps students and families connect what students do in the classroom to their life goals, including finding colleges and careers based on their personal skills and areas of interests. Naviance provides a single location for school and district administrators to engage students and families, improve college and career planning, and measure student outcomes. We encourage parents, guardians, and family members to explore the wealth of information contained in this incredible resource.
Attention Seniors: Simi Valley Unified School District uses Naviance to submit documents electronically to colleges. These documents include School Reports, Letters of Recommendation, and Transcripts. Seniors need to make sure the colleges they are applying to are listed in Naviance and their list is updated to reflect their most current selection of schools.
How you log on: https://student.naviance.com/mvista Welcome to Naviance Student Student Log in information: Student user name: Effective Jan. 27, 2020, user name will be the student's SVUSD gmail account. Student Password is your First name capitalized and then rest lower case.
Read all that is being asked of you when filling out information. You must match your common application with your Naviance account or you can't get documents sent including the secondary school report or your letters of recommendations and transcripts.
You must send your test scores from the College Board and the ACT program ideally before the end of December. Definitely true for CSU/UC. Be sure to send or your application for admission could be denied, or rescinded if offer provisionally made. The college or university to which you are applying that is private, and is not CSU/UC, you must read directions for sending your scores on their respective website.
Use super match or the college search feature in Naviance to learn all there is too about the college to which you are applying including, but not limited too: grade point average of admitting freshmen, SAT or ACT averages, cost of attending, rate by which students complete a 4 year degree versus continuing beyond 4 years, and so forth.
Re: Written evaluation or known as letters of recommendation: Making a request for a Letter of Recommendation is a very personal endeavor that students are asking teachers, counselors, and community Members to write for them. As such, the requests should be made in person or with an email to the recommender before he/she receives the request from the organization. Then it is suggested that it be followed up with a formal request in Naviance. Recommendations are a HUGE task --your teacher can be asked to do many letters during the course of the year, and each letter takes time usually outside the usual business day, for no additional compensation. You need to be well organized when you approach a member of the staff/teacher for a recommendation - make sure that your brag sheet questionnaire is completed in Naviance. Click on the tab About Me, then My Surveys. Please make sure to ask WELL in advance (at least 2 weeks). If teacher and/or staff are willing to write a letter for you, then you must confirm it by formally requesting the recommendation in Naviance. Once a teacher and/or I have written the recommendation, please do us the courtesy of extending a thank you with a note. Important Notes about Recommendations:
The UC's & CSU's do not require or accept letters of recommendation.
Private colleges require both recommendations and transcripts. Most applications for scholarships & summer programs will also require them.
Recommendations are intended to be confidential documents. Students/parents should not ask the writer for a copy. It is the writer's prerogative to allow students or parents to view the letter.
If students need multiple letters of recommendation, they should use the same teachers/counselor for those letters as well.
Always send the teacher a thank you note for taking the time to write you a recommendation!
Make sure all of your test scores have been updated and saved in Naviance.
Make sure that you have moved all of the colleges you are applying to out of the "college's I'm thinking about" section of Naviance into the "colleges I'm applying to" page. You must do this BEFORE you submit your letter of recommendation request.
Make sure that you have the selected the correct deadlines for each of your schools in the "colleges I'm applying to" section of Naviance. These are the deadlines your teacher and counselor will be working towards.
Make sure your Naviance Account has been matched to your Common Application.
For any schools that do not accept the electronic documents, you will need to bring the supplemental forms, along with stamped, pre-addressed envelopes to your teachers to mail them in.